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<h1>Journal papers etc. that used PIVlab</h1>
<p>I am really happy to see that there is a huge amount of studies (> 3000) that use PIVlab for all kinds of different experiments (fluid dynamics, sand and gravel motion, cell motion, blood flow, flow mapping of rivers, 3D printing, dam breaching etc.). Most of the citations can be found on Google Scholar:
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  <a href="https://scholar.google.de/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=de&cites=7225443221733178833,4276149511631607651,4184190503480212499,13789886987309799139,10691515884781376993,10049720257913666019,7761474394408718270&as_sdt=5" target="_blank">Citations on Google Scholar</a></p>
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<h3>Here are my papers about PIVlab:</h3>
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<li>Thielicke, W. and Risius, S. (2025) Educational experiments with Particle Image Velocimetry in a small Prandtl water tunnel, accepted preprint, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02147", taget="_blank">http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02147</a></li>
<li>Thielicke, W. (2022) Pulse-length induced motion blur in PIV particle images: To be avoided at any cost?. Proceedings of the Fachtagung Experimentelle Strömungsmechanik 2022, 6.–8. September 2022, Ilmenau, Germany, ISBN 978-3-9816764-8-8, <a href="https://www.gala-ev.org/images/Beitraege/Beitraege2022/pdf/04.pdf", taget="_blank">https://www.gala-ev.org/images/Beitraege/Beitraege2022/pdf/04.pdf</a></li>
<li>Thielicke, W., Sonntag, R. (2021) Particle Image Velocimetry for MATLAB: Accuracy and enhanced algorithms in PIVlab. Journal of Open Research Software, 9: 12. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.334", taget="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.334</a></li>
<li>Thielicke, W. and Stamhuis, E.J. (2014): PIVlab – Towards User-friendly, Affordable and Accurate Digital Particle Image Velocimetry in MATLAB. Journal of Open Research Software 2(1):e30, DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.bl", taget="_blank">http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jors.bl</a></li>
<li>Thielicke, W. (2014): The Flapping Flight of Birds - Analysis and Application. Phd thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. <a href="http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/382783069", taget="_blank">http://irs.ub.rug.nl/ppn/382783069</a></li>
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<h3>Paper about the implementeation of the optical flow method (wOFV) in PIVlab:</h3>
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<li>Jassal, G.R., Thielicke, W. and Schmidt, B.E. (2025) ‘An Optical Flow Algorithm with Automatic Parameter Adjustment for Fluid Velocimetry’, Journal of Open Research Software, 13(1), p. 22., <a href="https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.584", taget="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.584</a></li>
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